This article shows you how to design the storage for email addresses, how to validate email addresses, how to retrieve demographic information from email addresses efficiently, using computed columns and indexes. It also covers the security aspect of dealing with email addresses.
2002-08-01
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A look at a new security tool from Microsoft for analyzing your SQL (and other) servers.
2002-07-30
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Certy.com has just released SQL Server 2000 certifications. These certifications are 100% free and a must for any DB developer & DBA.
2002-07-30
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The strength and holy grail of relational databases lies in the very name: relations. Microsoft has put a good deal of intelligence and cunning into query optimizations, caching, indexing and execution plans to make the process of finding related records even smoother and faster. This small article, however, will try to shatter the very sacred notion of relational databases.
2002-07-29
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Microsoft has released a patch to fix two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in SQL Server 2000. No UserID or password is required by the attacker to exploit these issues. The problem is exacerbated by the fact the attack goes over UDP.
2002-07-29
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The purpose of this article is to give you a working knowledge of how to view and understand query execution plans for SQL Server. This is part 1 in a series of articles that will walk you through understanding execution plans to help you improve your queries.
2002-07-26
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SQLClean is a SQL Tool that automatically creates a dependancy analysis of your SQL Server Database including tables, views, triggers, defaults, procedures etc. SQLClean will also analyze a client application for depenandies on SQL Objects allowing you to detect and eliminate unused SQL objects that are unreferenced by either the client app. or database itself.
2002-07-26
3,537 reads
From News.com, this series contains a bunch of interviews and surveys of a number of CTOs from large US corporations. Worth a read to see what the heavy spenders think.
2002-07-25
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Microsoft has release a cumulative security update for SQL Server with SP2. Read , download and update your SQL Server!
2002-07-25
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This article contains descriptions of 65 documented and undocumented trace flags currently available in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000.
2002-07-24
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I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Hi guys and gals, I've created a system that automatically allows you to "generate"...
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If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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